I am planning on creating a story set in 1990s Russia. What sources can I use so that the setting is accurate/based in reality?
>>18508991>What sources can I use so that the setting is accurate/based in reality?A time machine.
Just watch Traumazone. Utter kino.https://youtu.be/_Wf5lT7zR50
>>18508998Not watching BBC propaganda.
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>>18508991Watch Brother (1997), it's a good entry point. It encapsulates the aesthetics.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqXLVIhFhqTv-OCXGFUJCst4MOVNzt15Pelevin's 1990s books are set in that time period and dig into the inner workings of the mind of a person, who was forced to switch from one set of ideals to another, just as fake and superficial.Culturally, all the gates were open and the country was flooded with foreign cultural output, no matter the place of origin. Be it Hollywood or Brazilian soap operas, French movies or Japanese cartoons, Playboy journals or German VHS porn, UK bands and Italian concerts, all sold openly in the kiosks all of a sudden, after decades of managed cultural scarcity. Most of all, the art of advertisements. This was the biggest new thing.The government only had no reach and was critically underfunded, bankrupt, hollowed out even, which led to nominal existence of all welfare and and rise of crime on all levels. Among the coping mechanisms, satire and consumerism trumped all, for older people it was alcoholism and religiosity. There was an air of mortal unseriousness to everything. Only the people around you could be treated as something genuine in this world.Also, as a quirk of the time period: since ruble hyperinflated, people traded in "conventional units" or "y.e.":https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0
Importantly, the rural areas (especially kolkhozes)were hollowed out since they were mostly subsidized in the Soviet time. So did the towns that were founded for the command economy purposes. They were all bankrupt and the population started consolidating in bigger cities, a process that hasn't stopped to this day.
